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New: 'Apple Intelligence' AI Service for iOS 18 Will Have These Features
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It’s going to be revolutionary - the most intelligent iOS ever released and they think you’re going to love it.
Remember, it’s not the processing, it’s the RAM. They’ve been skimping on ram this entire time, while talking up a “neural engine” that apparently doesn’t do anything.
That’s what happens when one of your three operating systems is 3 versions behind. Maybe not in Kernel, but marketing-wise it is.
Honestly, it would have been better if they adjusted the number of macOS when iOS was on it’s eleventh iteration, but I understand that the big change came with Big Sur, with the new UI and the support for ARM processors. But sure, having iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS 18 would be more consistent.
Anyways, it’s funny because I think internally they keep referring to them as macOS 10.16 (Big Sur), macOS 10.17 (Monterrey) and so on. Just take a look to the installer, and CMD+I to see how they name it. The upcoming macOS 18 will be macOS 10.20 internally, if they still keep that naming scheme.
This isn’t anywhere near “intelligence” it’s just better software. Enough with the hype.
Sounds like a battery drain. Glad it’s opt in.
They cannot “lock all features down”, just imagine the fallout! Apple control about 30% of the global smartphone market and the current most common model in use is iPhone 13 (not Pro). Especially considering that Google are pushing their AI as far back as possible to older Android phones, so no worries.
Don't care about any of these things. Why would anyone want AI to write a reply to an email? Glad it'll be opt-in. Hard Pass.
I know what you mean, but it’s likely technical limitations rather than just excluding certain iPhones
Except its not Apple, its powered from OpenAI and Google Gemini 😂
So Apple (borrowed from Google and OpenAI) Intelligence
So Apple (borrowed from Google and OpenAI) Intelligence
Why do none of these articles mention Apple home? It’s so weird considering Siri and home are made for the other
I've found Perplexity to be really good at this (and the Arc Search app to be fairly okay at it), but if I can get this as part of iOS... that'd be pretty cool. 👀
Its definitely a RAM issue, Google are able to give the £450 Pixel 8a some Gemini nano features because it has 8GB RAM and the Pixel 9 series is rumoured to have 16GB RAM to improve things greatly.
Apple skimped on RAM for years and now its come back to bite them.
Locking this behind the 15 Pro phone and newer seems very intentional to try and get people to upgrade.
I have no doubt my regular 15 could run every single one of these features on device.
I have no doubt my regular 15 could run every single one of these features on device.
Thank GOD it's opt-in. I want exactly none of this.
And what countries as well.
It's annoying that certain features are US-based only (I'm talking about you Visual Look Up)
People opine on opting-out yet I’m sure all of them use at least one of Gmail, TikTok and Facebook/Instagram - all of which collect far more personal info 😆
It’s brilliant and was staring us in the face the whole time. If Apple bifurcates the technology world between ”Apple” and “Artificial” Intelligence it will become one of the most successful branding feats in marketing history.
Apple hasn't used the i prefix for a new product name since the iPad launched.
Yup, no reason at all. None. Nada. Except, maybe, hear me out: the new 16-core Neural Engine with 35 trillion operations per second in A17 Pro has something to do with it.
You haven’t educated yourself on how the neural engine is CURRENTLY used, so you confidently say it does nothing. It currently powers: Siri voice production (used to be just for phoneme selection and chaining but now generates the whole waveform from the NN), Siri voice-to-text, Photos image object and face recognition and tagging, public API for app developers for things like plant-recognition apps etc…